Claire Thompson

Prevention and Early Detection in Health and Social Care Theme Lead

Dr Claire Thompson is a Reader in Food Inequalities and Health at the University of Hertfordshire and she is the Theme Lead for NIHR ARC East of England’s Prevention and Early Detection in Health and Social Care theme.

Before joining the University of Hertfordshire, Claire was based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine working on a variety of projects including Olympic regeneration, alcohol licencing, and a Wellcome Trust Society and Ethics fellowship investigating the health and wellbeing challenges of foodbanking. She completed a PhD in Human Geography at the Queen Mary University of London and has also worked as a teacher in Further Education and a Special Education Needs Teaching Assistant.

Claire Thompson

Prevention and Early Detection in Health and Social Care Theme Lead

Get in contact with Claire at c.thompson25@herts.ac.uk.

Related work

Exploring Cultural Adaptation of a Faith-Placed Intervention to Promote Bowel Cancer Screening in Hindu Communities

FAIR-Food: Food Aid Inequality Rectified

Sharing Community Learning about Nutrition: Co-creating a Cookbook

Piloting Community Transformation Funds in West Hertfordshire

Drivers of Migrant Food Poverty in the UK

Understanding what research matters to people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage

Co-Creating Asset and Place Based Approaches to Tackling Refugee and Migrant Health Exclusion

ARC East of England Food and Nutrition Subgroup

Exploring the Food Aid Landscape for Pensioner Age Households (PAH) in the UK: Hidden hardship and impact on health and wellbeing

Increasing bowel cancer screening in Muslim communities

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Developing a co-designed intervention to increase COVID-19 vaccination confidence among young people and their parents in the Black African and Caribbean communities in Watford